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update windows docs to help people on limited internet connection #134

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Expand Up @@ -978,6 +978,7 @@ Momoka Yamamoto <momoka.my6@gmail.com>
Momoko Hattori <momohatt10@gmail.com>
Mostafa Sedaghat joo <mostafa.sedaghat@gmail.com>
Mrunal Kapade <mrunal.kapade@intel.com>
Muhammad Naeem Tariq <naaeemmalik21@gmail.com>
Munira Tursunova <moonira@google.com>
Myeongjin Cho <myeongjin.cho@navercorp.com>
Myles C. Maxfield <mymax@amazon.com>
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8 changes: 6 additions & 2 deletions docs/windows_build_instructions.md
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* A 64-bit Intel machine with at least 8GB of RAM. More than 16GB is highly
recommended.
* At least 100GB of free disk space on an NTFS-formatted hard drive. FAT32
will not work, as some of the Git packfiles are larger than 4GB.
* At least 100GB of free disk space on an NTFS-formatted hard drive, with fetch --no-history flag just 65GB storage is needed. FAT32 and exFAT filesystems arent supported because they dont support setting meta data for files, eg file permissions and owners.
* An appropriate version of Visual Studio, as described below.
* Windows 10 or newer.
* if your internet connection is limited (eg mobile internet) at least 70GB of internet packege is needed, with --no-history flag to fetch just 15GB is needed, internet connection cant get intrupted while fetch is running otherwise you have to delete and fetch code from start, 50Mbps connection is recomended otherwise on slower connection you have to run this command otherwise it may fail after consuming alot of your internet data
```
git config --global core.compression 0
git config --global http.postBuffer 2M
```

## Setting up Windows

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